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Nurses: Disease Control

Volume 471: debated on Monday 4 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many infection control nurses were employed in the NHS in England in each financial year since 1997-98. (179131)

This information is not collected centrally.

The annual national health service workforce census does not separately identify the number of infection control nurses from the rest of the nursing workforce.

Infection control nurses (ICN) should be registered nurses and are usually the only full-time members of the infection control team with full-time responsibility for infection control. ICN staffing levels are a matter for local determination.